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Twenty-four million American children — one in three — are growing
up in homes without their biological fathers, the 2011 Census says.
Children in father-absent homes, it notes, are almost four times more
likely to be poor.

The opulent residence of President Viktor
Yanukovych has always
been a closely guarded secret and a symbol of
the alleged corruption
at Ukraine's highest levels. On Saturday,
after he fled the capital and
its gates were thrown open, thousands streamed
into the compound
to get a first-hand look.

Afghanistan's Taliban said Sunday they had suspended "mediation" with the United States to exchange captive Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five senior Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, halting _ at least temporarily _ what was considered the best chance yet of securing the 27-year-old soldier's freedom since his capture in 2009.

Parking tickets can be infuriating, especially
when they seem undeserved. But most people
don't want to invest the time and energy to
would take to dispute them. Now there's a new
iPhone app, Fixed, that will fight parking
tickets for you.

The City of Holladay has become the latest
local municipality to pass a law to prevent
discrimination based on sexual identity. By a
vote of 5-1, council members approved an
ordinance to prohibit such discrimination in
housing and employment.

A legislative committee on Friday advanced a
bill that would allow the Utah Division of Air
Quality to make more stringent rules governing
air pollution than the federal government. The
tougher requirements would have to meet certain
conditions.

John Maack, known by his friends as "Johnny Runner," received some devastating news with a cancer diagnosis in late 2012. That didn't hold him back. Just a year after his first cancer treatment, Maack ran a 100-mile race. He is in remission.

Zion National Park and the Utah Division of
Wildlife Resources are hoping to collaborate in
managing a herd of more than 500 desert bighorn
sheep, which has grown from a group of 12 that
were reintroduced to the park in 1973.

Flushed with pride after its athletes' spectacular showing at the costliest Olympics ever, Russia celebrated Sunday night with a visually stunning finale that handed off a smooth but politically charged Winter Games to their next host, Pyeongchang in South Korea.

Around 8:30 p.m., fire crews responded to a
fire at City Park Apartments at 786 N. 900
West, where the flames started in a second-
floor unit and spread to the apartment above
it, according to Salt Lake City Fire
Department.